Comments by "Thurso Berwick" (@thursoberwick1948) on "Academy of Ideas"
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@sheldoncooper8199 "What's the point of dealing with dying?" We can take it from that comment, you've not seen much of it in your life. That's a luxury most people have never had in this world. When you're faced with death, either your own or someone else's, it puts things in perspective. Yes, atheists do cry at funerals, but their notion that you're just snuffed out like a candle is not very comforting to anyone at all, except perhaps if someone has been in physical pain just beforehand. But even then - it implies that the death of a small child, say, was a short life of no consequence. Also, if you know you're going to die in the near future, you start to think about things very differently too. It's easy to be flippant about death in your teens, not so much if you're in your late nineties. A lot of people do not want to go, and do not want their loved ones to go. A lot of people are very frightened of death, no matter what their mindset.
If you think I'm just talking about the afterlife here, I'm not. Buddhist meditation is partly a psychological preparation for death, by getting people to understand that "nothing is permanent" etc. That's an aspect many people miss.
Also, I have to admit, I look around me and despite the beauty of this world (in some places), I find it incredibly depressing to think this is all we have... especially if you're a wage slave or unemployed, and that has been true in the last two years, and that thinking has killed some people I know. Contrary to the thinking that religion takes one's focus off this life, I've actually found it makes me happier in it. I spent many years irreligious - that aspect was never positive for me, and insurmountable.
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@fluffynator6222 No, that's gaslighting. Gaslighting is when you try and persuade someone that they are just imagining something.
This isn't an imagined feature of Kindle, it's a real one. As I said before, I work in publishing and one can alter details of a book after it has been downloaded. There are practical reasons for this, but they are not always sinister.
Ironically, you're the one trying to rationalise all this, e.g. when you say "the author is altering the book, not Amazon". The reality is that a) Amazon is capable of altering books as well, and b) it is the publisher, not the author who is altering the book. Many books are self-published these days, so publisher and author are one and the same, but that is irrelevant to the argument.
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@happyhaze1526 Humans are driven by emotions. Even autistic people. We are not computers. Most of our decisions are rationalised after the event, not before. We spend most of our lives in an illogical state – over a quarter of the day in unconsciousness on average (6,7,8 hours), and even during the waking day we do not spend most of our time in rational thought (even when we think we are). Some people take drugs or drink to suspend that part. A considerable portion of the adult day is often taken up with thoughts about sex, various relationships, worries, money/food, and a host of other things which are not based around logic.
Of course, a completely logical person would be something approaching a psychopath, because they would judge other people's lives or interactions with them on a callous and somewhat "cold" basis.
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@fluffynator6222 I work in publishing, mate. I know a lot more about this than you do. Yes, they do alter books, in fact Kindle advertises the fact one can. It is not always a bad thing. If you use a Kindle, you can flag up spelling and content errors, which will then be forwarded on to the publisher and then corrected. That is the positive side of the phenomenon, and I know a number of people who do that on a regular basis... however, your gaslighting, i.e. trying to persuade me this is all in my mind, is pretty pathetic, so please quit it.
Also, don't bother lecturing me on physical books... I own hundreds of them.
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